The support of science, the blind acceptance of the validity of scientific statements and the equation of science with truth (at least science and truth as they were perceived at the turn of the century) became an important thread in the fabric of modern Western Judaism.

All science and all research are accepted as valid sources of truth and the Torah is stretched and twisted on the Procrustean bed of compromise to conform to the new discovery.

Science and technology have so much to offer mankind; what a terrible waste that misconceptions and mistakes serve as a crutch for the non-observant and as an obstacle to those who want to return to the Torah.

It is worth pointing out, though, that although the coincidence in timing virtually compels belief in the connection, there is still a problem in that the strongest response (at 100 kyr) corresponds to the weakest forcing, and as far as I am aware this problem has not been resolved.

There was also a book by the prominent science writer Lowell Ponte (The Cooling) that derided the skeptics and noted the importance of acting in the absence of firm, scientific foundation.

This paper is actually rather noteworthy in the annals of science, a seminal study linking orbital forcing to the periodicities found in ocean cores.

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In 1827 he was appointed Assistant Curator of the Royal College of Surgeons' Hunterian Collections and then Hunterian professor (1836), and conservator (1842).

The support Owen lent to orthodox men of science and supporters of the status quo and sometimes a fawning elitism made him a favourite of elite conservative patrons.

Owen later became Fullerian professor at the Royal Institution in 1858, and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1858).

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation.

Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.

Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of.

The European Union's embattled research commissioner, Edith Cresson, submitted her resignation this week along with the other 19 EU commissioners in the wake of a scathing report by a European Parliament investigative panel that alleged cronyism and mismanagement in the EU's executive body.

As Science went to press, it was not yet clear whether some commissioners would be renamed to their positions by their respective governments, to serve out terms that had been scheduled to expire at the end of this year.

However, two sources in Brussels said it was "highly unlikely" that the French government would restore Cresson to her post, and officials are beginning to speculate about her successor.

This is particularly the case for the History of Science Archive at the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which has made invaluable contributions to the work of many researchers from Brazil and other countries.

The History of Science Archive is just part of one of the lines of research undertaken by the Museum of Astronomy, dedicated to the history of the exact sciences and natural history and studies on the preservation of documental archives of scientists.

After organizing a set of documents, the History of Science Archive publishes its inventory, including a biography of the scientist or a history of the institution; information on the formation of the archive; the way it was organized and a description of the folders and indices.

The College Of Wooster Bachelor degree Geology + Earth Science, General: A program that focuses on the scientific study of the earth; the forces acting upon it; and the behavior of the solids, liquids and gases comprising it.

Includes instruction in historical geology, geomorphology, and sedimentology, the chemistry of rocks and soils, stratigraphy, mineralogy, petrology, geostatistics, volcanology, glaciology, geophysical principles, and applications to research and industrial problems.

Also, students of this school are eligible for federal aid such as Pell Grants and Direct Loans from the US Department of Education.

Insectoid interviewer Weta Bug sits down with fantasy and science fiction sculptor Gary Hunt (no known relation to fantasy author Stephen Hunt, we should point out) and asks Gary about how travelling the world led him to Weta Workshop, his work on the Lord of the Rings film, King Kong, and the Narnia movies.

A number of sources, says Mark, including Science News and the BBC News have been reporting about Oscar, the Providence, Rhode Island nursing home cat who can sense the coming of death.

The Sunburst Award for the best Canadian science fiction has announced that the winner of their 2007 award is Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin.

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1720-René Réaumur submits a report to the Paris Academy of Sciences proposing that a brief Noachian flood cannot account for the thick sedimentary layers (composed largely of broken shells) underlying the region of Tours.

1723-Antoine de Jussieu addresses a paper to the Académie des Sciences suggesting that an ancient object, e.g., a stone tool, made of the same material and by the same process as those used by a modern population probably has the same function.

The fossils all come from the Doushantuo phosphorites in southern China, and all are estimated to be about 570 million years old, making them the oldest fossil embryos so far discovered.

The International Polar Years of 2007-2009-and associated "I*Y" science years such as IHY, IYPE and eGY-present a unique opportunity to change this.

(2) The "HiDef Video Science Story Capture Corps" is a team of professional videographers, using the latest generation of low-cost, high-quality cameras, deployed to both Poles.

The resulting HD footage will be cataloged, archived and made available as public domain material, accessible to government research agencies for media releases, to the researchers and their home universities, and to science centers and museums.

Birmingham was a prospering centre of trade and industry, as this 1827 engraving shows.

It was an ideal base from which Matthew Boulton could sell his engines.

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Court TV has teamed up with the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) to present these free curriculum units on forensic science for middle and high school students.

The New York Historical Society created this online exhibition that explores the period from the 1600s to 1827, when slavery was legally abolished in New York State, through the use of interactive galleries and multimedia presentations.

Predicting Seasonal Weather, presented by the National Science Foundation, is an interactive exploration of the research that has led to "a new understanding of the relationship between fall snow cover and winter climate variability," a new way of predicting seasonal weather.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community.

Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute.

As one of the aurora forecasters at the Geophysical Institute located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus, Charles Deehr has emailed people around the world who want to know when the northern lights will appear above their heads.

Afghan officials did open a vault deep under Kabul's presidential palace last month, but they now say the gold they found belonged to the National Bank, according to a UNESCO official who spoke with Makhdoum Raheen, the Afghan Minister of Information and Culture.

There are still unopened "safe rooms" that might hold the missing treasure, the source says.

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Results will be returned shortly after you have selected these parameters and clicked on the "Calculate trend" button below.

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Is carbon dioxide a harmful air pollutant, or is it an amazingly effective aerial fertilizer?